It's really a bad new. We´ll miss his active discussions in the list.
My apologizes.

Javier

Marcus Coltro <[log in to unmask]> escribió:

> I am deeply sorry to inform the passing of my dear friend Andrew
> Grebneff from New Zealand.
>
> Below is the message I got this morning.
>
> Marcus Coltro
>
>
>
> Dear staff and senior students of the Department of Geology:
>
> I am sorry to pass on a message received about 4 pm this afternoon
> Thursday: that our paleontology technician Andrew Grebneff has
> been found dead in a hotel room in Mexico. Andrew worked last week
> until Wednesday, and then said he'd take a few days off. He had
> the weekend with his family, somewhere out of town, but returned
> home early, ostensibly to do field work. He didn't return home on
> Monday night, and on Tuesday was tracked to Los Angeles. From there,
> he sent a brief message saying he would not be back in New
> Zealand.
>
> Andrew Grebneff worked with me as a fossil preparator since 1985, on
> rolling short term contracts. He had consuming interests in
> paleontology, and in the study of molluscs. He was an exceptionally
> skilled preparator, meeting the highest international standards.
>
> His wife Kala, and two teenage children, can be contacted at 38
> Crosbie Street, Mornington, Dunedin; tel 453 4436.
>
> Sincerely
> Ewan
> -- R. Ewan Fordyce
> *Associate Professor, and Head of Department,
> Department of Geology University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, NZ
> tel 3-479-7510, fossil prep lab 3-479-4575, cell 021-037-3964, fax 3-479-7527
> Administrative office: 3-479-7519 or [log in to unmask]
> web: http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/people/fordyce/index.html
> *Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian
> Institution
>

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